Currently, my favorite CMS is Drupal. Just as with any decent CMS, it is extremely malleable. No matter what your goals are for your web site, there is probably a way to implement a stable and workable solution using Drupal.

If you want to design a basic site and don’t want all the trouble of coding pages by hand and then uploading them, you can use Drupal as a simple CMS. It comes out of the box prepared to organize blocks, edit your page headers and footers, and create static pages through a simple Web interface. Additional modules can be installed that will allow files to be uploaded and linked on-the-fly as well as export pages to printer-friendly PDFs.